People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERreal letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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